VMworld 2009: The Parties

It wouldn’t be a conference without parties.   We held a couple of EMC ones…

1) The first was GeekFest on Monday night – we invited all the VMware, Cisco and EMC geeks (and select EMC customers, and partners) – folks in engineering, post-sales, or pre-sales technical roles.    We extended invites to their peers at a couple of EMC competitors in good faith and in the spirit of the event – was great to see some of them show (Vaughn, Alex McDonald from NetApp were there, and I hope they enjoyed themselves – Peter L, we missed you!).   See if you can spot: 1) Chris Horn looking a wee bit satanic; 2) other people you know…   Vaughn – that’s a good shot of us at the end…

Was fantastic event – great work Wade O’Harrow, Deb Loriau and Allison Nolan!

 

2) The second was the EMC/Intel Customer Appreication party on Tuesday Night – and this was OFF THE HOOK.  Apparently people were leaving the customer customer parties to come to ours..   600 people – was a great chance to meet many, and thank them for their business.   Carl Eschenbach joined us – thanks for coming!!    Great work Chris Carrier, Deb Loriau and Allison Nolan!   If you look at the shots, you can see a progression the night, ranging from “composed” to “packed” to “waa-hoo!”, to “bleary eyed Chris Carrier and Chad, celebrating it being done” :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) And of course, there was the VMworld party itself on Wednesday night… Band was Foreigner – they are old, but may I have the legacy of so many people groovin’ to things I created when **I’m** in my 60’s!   Heck, may I also be in a position to play a gig like that when I’m 60!   Was fun to let loose…   After the party was the traditional VMworld rave…   Hope everyone enjoyed a “Virtual Geek” on me!    “Virtual Geek” = Red Bull + Stoli – the marketing team made that up – simple but potent… I was indeed popping back red bulls all week :-)

 

There were several I missed (the VMware customer appreciation party, the Cisco customer appreciation party)…

Drowned a few brain cells this past week….

Comments

[Peter Learmonth]

Hey, I was there! (Albeit a little late).
Don't you remember? The bartender closed, then went to wheel off the trays of glasses, so I jumped behind the bar and found a bin of beers behind the cloth!
Then we went downstairs, and some of us had a drink in the Redwood Room (http://www.clifthotel.com/#/explore/?id=redwoodroom) before staggering over to the Marriott bar, where some of your guys attempted to brainwash us ;-)
Great times!

[Chad Sakac]

You're right Peter - I totally spaced, and didn't see you in the photos. The brainwashing was a two way street, my friend... I really think we have a lot to learn from each other - and I love the exchanges always!

Always know that I can count on a Canadian brother to find a way to the booze when the bar is closed :-)